The Story of a Plane Merchant Selling a House

We agreed to pay for all the goods with refined rice and flour. Then, I rented a bullock cart from the village and went back to my house to pack up my things, ready to move the things I needed to the city.

I pushed open the dusty door and found that it was locked tightly.

There wasn't much in the house, just two patched quilts, a few broken ceramic bowls, two broken chairs, a kang table with a hole in it, a wooden box filled with a few patched clothes, and some needles and thread.

I didn't plan to take anything else except the suitcases and needles and thread. Even if a thief came, he wouldn't steal the rest.

We rented a ox cart and waited until we could go back to transport the food back together. The driver would deliver the food to the hunter's wife's house.

Because dozens of bags of refined rice and flour are involved, the hunter's wife will follow and escort the truck.

The hunter's wife knew that she was going to work in the factory. "So, sister, will you come back to the village to collect mountain products in the future?"

Lai Di brushed off the dust on his body and said, "Of course I will accept it, but if you are confident, just send it to me directly. I can also give you some rice in advance so that you can use it to settle the bill with them."

Finally, with the prepaid food, the ox cart returned fully loaded.

Come and see, my sister's rooms and the side room in my own yard are full of grain.

She originally planned to switch to coarse grains to cope with the tasks in the factory, but she was a little hesitant. The task was due in one week, and her sister would be back by then, so she also wanted to ask her sister's opinion.

My eldest son Xiaopeng said he has a day off this afternoon, so I am here to pick him up from school. He doesn’t know where his new home is, so I’ll have to make sure he doesn’t get lost.

Young children seem to grow fast in the wind. I felt that they had grown a lot taller after not seeing them for half a month. The buttons of his clothes were not fastened properly, revealing his skinny neck.

Xiaopeng ran over carrying a bag of clothes and greeted the classmates he met.

He jumped in front of his mother with one big step.

"Mom, you've changed. I can't tell you what's changed. You don't look like my mom anymore."

Let's take a look at the work clothes she wore today, which were issued by the factory. They were dark blue, and her hair was tied tightly at the back of her head. Her skin was not as dark as before, and she looked like a female worker in the city.

Sons are not as sweet as daughters. The little girl would poke her face with her little fingers and sweetly praise her mother for getting white and beautiful. She would also put her soft cheeks against her to ask for more.

When they returned to the east yard, Xiaopeng couldn't close his mouth.

The spacious yard, neatly-arranged houses, and the ground of the yard is made of cement.

I opened the west room reserved for him. The kang was still warm, and there were soft beddings on it. They all looked new.

On one side, there are small floral pillows made specifically for the children. There is also a set of desks and chairs against the wall. The desks and chairs are in natural wood color and look very elegant.

Next to the desk is a wooden box that originally stored clothes in his family. Now Lai Di uses it to store books. There are also dozens of notebooks that Lai Di had not sold out, and a cloth pencil case, which contains several pencils and a pen.

Xiaopeng jumped up excitedly, "Mom, this is really our family. Have we made a fortune?"

Lai Kan pretended to be serious and said, "Of course the conditions are much better than before, but we still owe a lot of money to build the house, you can't spend money indiscriminately."

Xiaopeng was still happy. The only thing he felt a little embarrassed about was that the quilt and pillow his mother prepared for him had the same pattern as his younger brother and sister. The pink plaid quilt cover and bed sheet looked the same, and each child also had a small floral pillow.

He felt that he was already a man and it was a bit inappropriate to use a floral quilt.

Lai Di gave Xiao Peng one dollar and asked him to buy ink and pen for himself. Xiao Peng went out happily.

She was about to clean up the side room when there was a knock on the courtyard door.

The old woman who rented the house was standing at the door. She was not as sloppy and old as she seemed at first. She stood straight, her silver hair was neatly combed and pinned properly, and her gray-blue cloth jacket had no patches on it.

After letting the old lady into the yard, the old man took out the basket and said, "I don't have anything else to do, I just came to buy some candy."

Come and see them carry out a box of brown sugar, white sugar, rock sugar, as well as a box of snacks and candies.

The old man looked at the side room she opened and asked pointedly, "Are those milk powder cans and snacks? Bring them out and have a look."

The old man squatted down and put a full basket of candies. The snack box was a paper box that Tutu bought at a traditional pastry shop. The old man actually asked for six boxes directly.

Come and see and let her choose with confidence, I will send all the things to the nursing home.

The old man took the remaining six cans of youth milk powder. He didn't buy more brown sugar, white sugar, and rock sugar, just two packs each.

Lai Di helped deliver the things to the yard rented by the old man. The old man hesitated and stopped Lai Di who was about to leave, and asked, "Can you take care of the two children for a while?"

It turned out that her youngest daughter sent her a letter. I don't know whether it was to refuse the two children from going to Hai City or whether she really had no money or food.

In the letter, she cried about her difficult life and the problems that had happened in her husband's family, and hoped that the old man could help her.

The old lady wanted to go and see what happened to her little daughter, but she was worried about taking the child with her, as it would be inconvenient if something really happened to her daughter.

Besides, she is already very old and no longer has the energy to run around any more.

"I have to go to work too, and Xiaokai is the one who picks up and drops off the kids at home, so I really can't take care of them any longer."

The old lady explained that it was just like neighbors, and if the children needed help, she would help as much as she could, and the older boy could take care of himself and his sister. She was only gone for half a month and came back.

I came to see it, thought about it and agreed.

The old man didn't waste any time. He packed up his things and prepared to leave in a few days.

When Xiaopeng came back and didn't see his mother, he wandered around the house by himself. Through the storage room whose door was not closed tightly, he saw bags full of grain.

When Lai Di came back, Xiao Peng was already stunned. Lai Di patted his son on the shoulder and said, "Don't think about it. That's a purchasing task for the factory. It's just here for the time being."

Xiao Peng breathed a sigh of relief, and then said with some emotion, "Mom, I have never seen so much food in my life. It's all ours. How great it is."

When I came to see it, I somehow thought of the one thousand plane points used for upgrading, and I felt so sad.

If she used that thousand points to buy food, it would be enough for her family to eat for a lifetime.

The points were used to upgrade, but the new plane searched was also black. According to Tutu's suggestion, she gave the remaining 500 points to the system, and the result showed that the plane was silent.

Tutu was somewhat concerned about the issue of plane silence, because when Qiwu was upgraded to level 2, the plane he searched for was also plane silence. I don't know why Tutu always felt that this plane silence was not a good thing.

Come and see that I have decided not to use points to upgrade easily.

The kids are all at home today, so Lai Kan took out two snack boxes and let Xiao Peng and the others eat some snacks to fill their stomachs.

Let’s take out a piece of pork and prepare to make braised pork, fry the chopped green onions, boil sugar to color it, cover the pot and simmer for a while.

The children happily ate the snacks in small bites. The youngest, Nana, held the snack in her two little hands and took a small bite very seriously. Her cheeks puffed up and her little mouth kept chewing.

Little Niuniu acted like an older sister while eating and wiped little Nana's mouth.

Xiao Kai gobbled up the snacks in no time and didn't even drink a sip of water.

There were a lot of snacks, so there was no need to save them. Xiaopeng savored the rare sweetness carefully. He was the oldest child in the family and had experienced the hardships of fleeing war and famine. Now he felt like he was dreaming.